With the Israeli government having by all appearances abandoned even the pretense of being about to restart the peace talks which stalled in September, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas suggests that the time is coming for the PA to make a decision.
If it appears the talks won’t start, Abbas says he intends to make a push for unilateral statehood in the West Bank. That appears to be a non-starter however, with the US all but committed to stop such an effort on Israel’s behalf.
This threat has been repeated off and on by Palestinian officials, and appears to be a sort of “nuclear option” that Israel fears greatly. Though the Israeli government seems contented to occupy the West Bank more or less forever, while grabbing ever more land for settlements, it seems to need the pretense of a “peace process” to placate the international community in its decision to treat the occupied Palestinians as non-citizens.
Over 40 years after the occupation began no Palestinian Authority would all but necessitate some sort of one state solution, and it would be one in which Arabs are a large portion of the overall population. Since Israel’s far right government is determined to maintain a Jewish majority, that’s the one ending they cannot possibly allow.
I see no reason why they would not do exactly what the zionist did which is declare that they exist. Let the loud mouths who pretend to push for peace shot the first bullets at a nation which everyone knew should exist but was stopped by the war mongers in 1948,
If they declare independence, they have to act like a civilized state and not violent savages, so BRING IT ON!
Really. It did not wok that way for Israel. I sure hope you would not call the slaughter in Gaza an act of a civilized stated and clearly Israel is not a non violent state. BTW you might find out that Israel cannot put our fire fires so I would be careful about getting into fire fights. I know it was probably the act of stupidity which made them plant 260,000,000 pine trees in a desert but it is going to cause a fire that will last more than our lifetime.
Excuse me, who waited 9 months before agreeing to talks and then pulled out because he didnt get his way?
The solution to this conflict is for the Palestinians to overthrow their terrorist dictators in Fatah, Hamas, PLO, PA, IJ, PFLP, etc and throw the Hashemite dictators out of Jordan and take control of that land which is already 70% Palestinian. Put the border at the river and everyone is happy.
I thought the Palestinians were attempting to overthorw the terrorist dicatators but the likud keeps winning in Israel. BTW the Israel naiton is out of water and they are never going to allow anyone to control the water that the need mostly because they moved into a desert and waster what they had.